Ahoy Haikunauts !
I opened a new enhancement ticket in Haiku Trac ticketing tool about
a lacking BFS commandline
and
a lacking DriveSetup (here all filesystem related, that the DriveSetup can modify) feature
Who agree on it with me, please elevate the ticket positive completion possibility
with voting on it … just a clicking on the faint ‘up arrow’ sign - at top of the ticket.
Thank you for all of you, who read it and do it so - in advance -
Going by the ticket, it seems you want to rename a BFS volume if I understand it correctly. If that’s the case, all you need to do is right click on the volume icon on the desktop, select ‘Edit name’ and change the name like you do with renaming files. That method works for me at least, unless there is something more you want to do than that?
Well, I thought so it just rename the icon -
As I could change the mountpoint of the Haiku volume name with a simple mvcommand I issued on another Haiku instance, when it was mounted there by its original name under
the ‘/’ directory.
Ok, it worked this way - I could confirm in DriveSetup.
However I assume, it is normally better if we can do it with a command and in DriveSetup as well, as it would be the default disk management utility with the GUI.
If there will be a resize feature I would rather do it on commandline, then it should have some command that manage the resize of the filesystem. Then at least the volume rename would be that existing BFS volume command only one switch.
Generally icon name and volume name not obviously equal.
It should be in the User Guide at managing BFS volumes - until a more obvious solution delivered.
Thank you for the hint ! 
Please don’t ask people to perform vote bridgading for you, it just makes the votes on the bug tracker much less usefull…
Well, there are two things I don’t understand about this:
I didn’t ask for everyone to vote—only those who agree with the request.
Isn’t it meant to show how many people want the same change or agree that a specific problem needs fixing?
I didn’t campaign for my request;
I simply wrote that it would be great to turn a few API calls – which are currently hidden from us, ordinary users, and not directly accessible – into a single command…
…and to have a directly adjustable parameter for this function, in the one and only storage management tool, rather than one that can only be set when formatting the partition.
Most people only visit the ticketing system when dealing with their own specific issues; they might run a search before opening a new ticket, but they likely don’t check if others have already proposed the features or improvements they are looking for.
Instead, they just post about it on the forum.
Well, I chose to submit an official request, and I wrote on the forum to let people know I had done so.
I suspect there are people who have only just learned that voting on such matters is even an option within the ticketing system. For a long time, even I didn’t know.
People are constantly told not to post on the forum but to open a support ticket instead. Now that I’ve done exactly that – and then posted on the forum asking those who agree to show their support by voting --I feel a bit disappointed; after all, I did exactly what we were urged to do when we previously voiced our observations solely on the forum.
If the developers – or those responsible for delivering solutions via the ticketing system – are somehow bothered by this option, why don’t they just remove it?
Is it because they don’t use it anyway, so it doesn’t matter that it’s there?
So, should we report issues or not?
I’m left feeling a bit confused by all this; with this two-pronged communication approach, I really don’t know where we stand.
Yes, I think this is a good suggestion. I don’t know how difficult it is to code this.
You often write super hard difficult to read text.
In this case, the “reason” for this topic is also hard to grasp. You already posted a ticket, so clearly discussion of the issue should be on the ticket. What is this forum topic for?
You made a forum topic asking people, explicitly, to vote for this. There is a big difference between people having an issue, finding an existing ticket, upvoting it, and people beeing directed from the forum to the bug tracker.
I don’t want countless forum topics here telling people to “vote for X ticket or Y ticket”. It would just be super spammy on the forum, and would cause developers to completely ignore the ticket vote numbers.
Click the thing, f2 and rename… I don’t see how this is hidden, or how a command is simpler…
Not a reason to ask people to vote.
I don’t know how you arrived from “please don’t post here, open a ticket” (in your case even open your own tickets and don’t post on random other tickets) to “I made a ticket, but I am still making a forum post I was asked not to do”
Firstly, If you have a bug report it on the bugtracker. Then stop there. No further action is required, no vote brigading, no big forum posts etc.
The only further thing expected is that you are around to help debugging the issue. (Since otherwise there is no point in reporting the issue in the first place)
Anyway, if you have a question about how something works, or need help in the use of the OS, then the forum is the right place.